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Pindyck, Robert S. - 2021

Telecommunications Act of 1996, with a focus on the implications of irreversible investment. Although the goal is to promote competition …

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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet

Akerman, Anders - 2015

Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological … limited funding rolled out broadband access points, and provides plausibly exogenous variation in the availability and … adoption of broadband internet in firms. Our results suggest that broadband internet improves (worsens) the labor outcomes and …

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Does Government Investment in Local Public Goods Spur Gentrification? Evidence from Beijing

Zheng, Siqi - 2011

In Beijing, the metropolitan government has made enormous place based investments to increase green space and to improve public transit. We examine the gentrification consequences of such public investments. Using unique geocoded real estate and restaurant data, we document that the construction...

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Infrastructure Capital and Economic Growth : How Well You Use it May Be More Important than How Much You Have

Hulten, Charles R. - 2010

This paper shows that those low and middle income countries that use infrastructure inefficiently pay a growth penalty in the form of a much smaller benefit from infrastructure investments. The magnitude of this penalty is apparent when the growth experience of Africa is compared with that of...

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Endogenous Growth, Public Capital, and the Convergence of Regional Manufacturing Industries

Hulten, Charles R.; Schwab, Robert M. - 2021

Several explanations can be offered for the unbalanced growth of U.S. regional manufacturing industries in the decades after World War II. The convergence hypothesis suggests that the success of the South in catching up to the Northeast and Midwest should be understood by analogy with the...

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Infrastructure and Public R&D Investments, and the Growth of Factor Productivity in Us Manufacturing Industries

Nadiri, M. Ishaq; Mamuneas, Theofanis P. - 2021

In this paper we examine the effects of publicly financed infrastructure and R&D capital on the cost structure and productivity performance of twelve two-digit U.S. manufacturing industries. A general framework is developed to measure contribution of demand, relative input prices, technical...

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Taxation by Telecommunications Regulation

Hausman, Jerry A. - 2021

Telecommunications regulation in the U.S. is replete with a system of subsidies and taxes. Because of budgetary …

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Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment

Glaeser, Edward L.; Poterba, James M. - 2021

This paper summarizes economic research on investment in public infrastructure and introduces the findings of several new studies on this topic. It begins with a review of several potential justifications for the public sector’s involvement in building, financing, and operating infrastructure,...

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Commodity Currencies and Monetary Policy

Devereux, Michael B. - 2018

mechanism and test the over-identifying restrictions for Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. For all three countries …

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Confronting Divergent Interests in Cross-Country Regulatory Arrangements

Kane, Edward J. - 2021

Although nation-based systems of financial regulation constitute a second-best approach to global welfare maximization, treacherous accountability problems must be acknowledged and resolved before regulatory cooperation can deal fairly and efficiently with cross-border issues. To track and...

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